[Tlhingan-hol] supersonic submarines?
SuStel
sustel at trimboli.name
Tue Aug 26 11:05:57 PDT 2014
On 8/26/2014 1:29 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:
> To discuss this, we have the noun {wab} "sound, noise" available but
> no simple word for a submarine. We'd need to describe it, e.g.
> *{bIQ'a' bIngDaq lengbogh (lengmeH) Duj}.
"Beneath the ocean" is an English idiom that may or may not exist in
Klingon. A submarine travels IN the ocean, not beneath it.
The trouble is, of course, that -Daq combines "in" and "on"...
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SuStel
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